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Kilnamanagh The Imperial Roman Economy
Book SynopsisThis book is the first coherent quantified assessment of the economy of the Roman Empire. George Maher argues inventively and rigorously for a much higher level of growth and prosperity than has hitherto been imagined, and also explains why, nonetheless, the Roman Empire did not achieve the transition which began in Georgian Britain. This book will have an enormous impact on Roman history and be required reading for all teachers and students in the field. It will also interest and provoke historians of the medieval and early modern periods into wondering why their economies failed to match the Roman level. Part of the problem in assessing the Roman economy is that we do not have much in the way of numerical data, but Roman historians, who rarely have much statistical expertise, have not always recognised the potential of the data we do have. Dr Maher's reassessment of the economy of the Roman Empire has to use the same data as everyone else, but he is able to draw strikingly novel conclusions in two ways: first, by more statistically sophisticated use of a few crucial datasets and, second, by correlating and drawing a coherent picture across the whole economy. On grain yields, firstly, instead of getting bogged down in details of individual cases, George Maher shows how there is a remarkably consistent pattern from which outliers can be excluded, showing yields were much higher than normally assumed. He then demonstrates that high yields are in fact necessary to explain the exceptional urbanization of the Empire. Urbanization at this level in turn, as George Maher shows, has implications for consumption and commerce. He takes this further to show how high levels of trade imply high levels of sophistication in economic practices and mentality. In one of his most methodologically novel chapters, George Maher develops a new and simpler way of assessing average life expectancy and argues for a life expectancy almost double the traditional view. This book, Dr George Maher's doctoral thesis, is the theoretical underpinning of his book Pugnare: Economic Success and Failure.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The agricultural sector and comparisons to other economies Chapter 3: Levels of urbanization and economic output Chapter 4: The extent of trade and why it changed over time Chapter 5: The expectation of life as a measure of economic progress Chapter 6: Productive knowledge and the potential for growth Chapter 7: The money system and its weaknesses Chapter 8: The system of state finances and fiscal incompetence Chapter 9: Conclusions Appendices Bibliography
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Botswana – A Modern Economic History: An African
Book SynopsisTogether with Mauritius, Botswana is often categorized as one of two growth miracles in sub-Saharan Africa. Due to its spectacular long-run economic performance and impressive social development, it has been termed both an economic success story and a developmental state. While there is uniqueness in the Botswana experience, several aspects of the country’s opportunities and challenges are of a more general nature. Throughout its history, Botswana has been both blessed and hindered by its natural resource abundance and dependency, which have influenced growth periods, opportunities for economic diversification, strategies for sustainable economic and social development, and the distribution of incomes and opportunities.Through a political economy framework, Hillbom and Bolt provide an updated understanding of an African success story, covering the period from the mid-19th century, when the Tswana groups settled, to the present day. Understanding the interaction over time between geography and factor endowments on the one hand, and the development of economic and political institutions on the other, offers principle lessons from Botswana’s experience to other natural resource rich developing countries. Table of ContentsPart IChapter 1: An African Diamond in the RoughChapter 2: Pre-Colonial Economy and Society, c. 1850-1930Part IIChapter 3: Colonial Policies and the Cattle Economy, c. 1930-1975Part IIIChapter 4: Growth, Incomes and Development, c. 1940-PresentChapter 5: Trapped by Diamonds, c. 1975-PresentChapter 6: Inequality of Incomes and Opportunity, c. 1920-PresentPart IVChapter 7: Conclusion
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Springer Daily Life in Classical Athens
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de Gruyter Handbuch Wirtschaft Und Religion
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de Gruyter Tilo Von Wilmowsky 18781966
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de Gruyter Das Fleisch Der Republik
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de Gruyter Zwischen Konkurrenz und Kooperation
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Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K Vertrieb und Vertrag an der Schwelle zur
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Kohlhammer W. Paket Wirtschaft in Oberschwaben
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Boehlau Verlag Sozioökonomie der Sexualitäten im 20. Jahrhundert
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Bohlau Verlag Wives, Heiresses, Businesswomen: Historical case
Book SynopsisIn the public imagination, small and medium-sized family businesses have always been male-dominated organisations, with those headed by women regarded as barely noteworthy exceptions to the rule. These ideas and associations are far from telling the full story; the proportion of women among Germany's self-employed population remained above 20 per cent throughout the twentieth century. A surge of interest in female entrepreneurs among academic researchers and in the political and media spheres has resulted in increasing recognition of their achievements past and present. There nevertheless remains a persistent tendency to overlook the fact that women have always made a vital contribution to the success of family businesses, even where they did not directly handle these companies' business affairs. This volume presents new insights into the diverse roles of women in family businesses, as daughters, wives, mothers, widows and entrepreneurs. Eleven case studies drawn from a range of sectors and eras illuminate the significance of women's influence in family businesses throughout the history of commerce. Bringing together approaches from the history of business, gender, society and culture, the chapters explore women's multi-faceted roles within numerous enterprises in a new and enlightening depth.
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Bohlau Verlag Extended Views: Gesellschafts- und
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Böhlau-Verlag GmbH Der kaiserliche Reichshofrat
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Duncker & Humblot Zur Geschichte Des Vereins Fur Socialpolitik:
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Duncker & Humblot GmbH Innovation und Planwirtschaft
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Brill Schoningh Deutschlands Ölfelder: Eine Stoffgeschichte Der
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Brill U Schoningh Zeiten in Deutschland 1879-1919: Konzepte,
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Brill Schoningh Händler, Forscher, Invasoren: Russland Und
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Brill I Schoeningh Neue Perspektiven Der Unternehmensgeschichte
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Steiner Franz Verlag Von einer NSAutarkiegründung zum
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Steiner Franz Verlag Am leinenen Faden
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wbg Academic Handbuch der kommunalen Wirtschaftsförderung
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Innovativitat in Krisenzeiten?: Der Umgang
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Duncker & Humblot GmbH 12 Faktenblätter zur deutschen Wirtschaft
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Spector Books The FACIT Model: Globalism, Localism, Identity
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Bod Third Party Titles Tokos
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Editon Synapse Conceptual Origins of Malthus's 'Essays on
Book SynopsisThis six-volume facsimile collection reprints seven publications from the 17th to early 19th century, which conceptually influenced Robert Malthus and his Population - one of the most significant works in the history of thought. All are rare and difficult-to-find texts which have never been reprinted before.Table of ContentsVolume I: The Primitive Origination of Mankind. Volume II: A Six Month’s Tour through the North of England. The Farmer’s Tour through the East of England. The Question of scarcity plainly stated and remedies considered (1800), c.100 pp. Volumes III–V: A Journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787. Volume VI: A Philosophical Survey of the Animal Creation. A Letter to the Rev. T.R. Malthus.
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Four. El ADN secreto de Amazon, Apple, Facebook y Google / The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
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John Wiley & Sons Crisis Reform In Latin America From Despair To H
Book SynopsisA contemporary discussion of the main issues of economic reform in Latin America. Beginning with 1982, the text is divided into three main eras: the early adjustment from 1982-1987; the main period of adjustment from 1987-1993; and the future.
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Oxford University Press The Poll Taxes of 1377 1379 and 1381 Part 2 LincolnshireWestmorland
Book SynopsisThe poll tax records of 1377, 1379 and 1381 form a massive resource about individuals, their occupations, and their relationships, and therefore provide an intriguing and detailed picture of late fourteenth-century England. Part 2 of this highly acclaimed edition covers the counties of Lincolnshire-Westmorland. The enormous wealth of material on Norfolk is of particular significance.Trade ReviewSeveral of the documents edited by Dr Fenwick are in very poor condition and difficult to read even with artificial aids. Therefore, the historical community is greatly obliged to her for persevering with this monumental work ... the editor is to be congratulated for her worthy contribution to the study of medieval taxation and for enhancing access to source material which might have otherwise remained unexplored. * Lincolnshire History & Archaeology: Annual Journal of Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology *
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Oxford University Press Diversity and Change in Modern India
Book SynopsisIndia''s society, economy, and polity have been transformed at a gathering pace since the early 1990s, and India''s growing role on the world stage makes it imperative to understand the roots and consequences of these changes. The 11 papers in this interdisciplinary volume review the growing body of data that help to make sense of these changes and to understand their likely significance. The volume provides systematic, macro-level studies of economic, demographic, social, and political change in India but also micro-level analyses of the detailed mechanisms ''on the ground'' of how Indian society is being re-shaped. This rare combination of micro- and macro-level analyses thus gives a rounded picture not only of national trends but also of the underlying processes of change.Each of the papers, by leading authorities in each field, showcases the fruits of new, previously unpublished scholarship across the social sciences. For example, Oliver Heath and Yogendra Yadav''s paper draws on tTable of Contents1. Incongruities, Ironies and Achievements: India's Tryst with Modernity ; 2. Growing Regional Variation: Demographic Change and its Implications ; 3. Costly Absences, Coercive Presences: Health Care in Rural North India ; 4. Economic Resurgence, Lopsided Reform and Jobless Growth ; 5. The Blind Side of Globalization: Auditing Merchant Producers in India's Export Sector ; 6. Unequal Opportunities: Class, Caste and Social Mobility ; 7. The Die is Cast(e): The Debate on Backward Caste/Class Quotas,1990 and 2006 ; 8. . The Rise of Caste Politics: Party System Change and Voter Realignment, 1962- 2004 ; 9. Understanding Popular Politics: Caste, Kinship and Factionalism among Yadavs in North India ; 10. A Left Front Election ; 11. The Challenge of Representing the Complex Reality of India
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Oxford University Press Inside the Department of Economic Affairs
Book SynopsisThe rise and fall of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) parallels the promised but eventually unfulfilled modernization agenda of the 1964-6 Wilson government. The diary kept by Samuel Brittan (in contravention of civil service rules) for the fourteen months in which he served as an ''irregular'' in the DEA provides a unique source for understanding the growth ambitions of the new government and why they quickly ran into the sands. Published here in full, with extensive notes, the diary sheds light on the Wilson government more broadly, giving insights into the ''great reappraisal'' of economic policy, the reform of government institutions and the personalities of those involved.Samuel Brittan emerged as the most important economic journalist of his generation (at the Financial Times from 1955, with brief interruptions, to the present). His diary is would be of interest for that reason alone, but it has a double value because of the special place that his book, The Treasury underTrade ReviewFrom the perspective of the serious scholar ... this is a most valuable resource ... This is a book for the academic connoisseur, who will be indebted to the immense skill of its editor, Roger Middleton, as much as to the diarist himself. * Nicholas Crafts, Financial Times *Professor Middleton is to be commended for the diligence with which he has edited the book * Nigel Lawson, Standpoint *The diary has been expertly edited by Roger Middleton, who contributes a most valuable introduction that provides the background to the making of economic policy. * Vernon Bogdanor, New Statesman *Table of ContentsTHE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS ; SAMUEL BRITTAN, THE DIARY OF AN IRREGULAR, 1964-6 ; APPENDICES
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OUP/British Academy Treasury Control and Public Expenditure in
Book SynopsisAt a time of acute interest in Scottish independence, the book charts the Treasury's response to Scottish claims from the late 19th century until the 1979 referendum. Key issues include Highland depopulation, fisheries, universities, support for farming, new towns, regional policy, North Sea Oil, budgetary responsibility and the Barnett formula.Table of ContentsEditor's introduction ; 1. The Vote and the Scottish Interest, 1885-1915 ; 2. Public expenditure and the Anglo-Scottish balance, 1916-39 ; 3. Public investment, the Scottish economy and the Block Vote, 1940-79 ; Appendix: Dramatis Personae
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OUP Oxford Documents of the First chambers of Commerce in Britain and Ireland 17671839
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Oxford University Press The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey
Book SynopsisWestminster Abbey was one of the wealthiest and most influential monastic houses in medieval England: c.1300 it held some 38,000 acres, largely in the Home Counties and West Midlands, and its revenues at the Dissolution exceeded 2,800 p.a. These assets supported a complement of 50 to 60 monks in the fourteenth century. This volume publishes 75 documents providing overviews (''states'') of the Westminster estate and its revenues,as administered by the abbot and convent separately between c.1300 and 1422. The states provided crucial information at a period of great social and economic change either side of the Black Death, assisting in decisions about farming estates directly or leasing them - and to historians today they provide rich evidence of the agricultural economy of medieval England, the systems of provisioning monasteries, and the men who shapedthem. The states are of two types. The first gives estimates of corn, stock and cash on the manors, made partway through the financial y
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Oxford University Press Weaving Histories
Book SynopsisWeaving Histories looks at the economic history of South Asia from a fresh perspective, through a detailed study of the handloom industry of South India between 1800 and 1960, drawing out its wider implications for the Indian economy. It employs an unusual array of sources, including paintings and textile samples as well as archival records, to excavate the links between cotton growing, cleaning, spinning and weaving before the nineteenth century. The rupture and re-configuration of these links produced a sea-change in the lives of ordinary weavers. Weaving Histories examines the configuration of forceslocal, regional, national and globalthat drove this transformation, and uncovers its effects on different groups of weavers.The handloom industry is used as a case study to throw light on the historical emergence of the ''informal sector'' in India, and to re-examine contemporary debates about industrialisation and economic development.Trade ReviewIn Weaving Histories, Karuna Dietrich Wielenga mobilizes an impressive range of sources to show that for at least south India many of the truisms often repeated are, if not incorrect, then surely imprecise. To understand the important revisionist work of this book, the author provides a careful analysis not just of weaving but also of raw cotton cultivation and spinning. * Giorgio Riello, European University Institute, Labour History Review *By providing the local, granular details of handloom production, Weaving Histories not only sets the stage for a nuanced understanding of a sophisticated industry within a complex socioeconomic environment but also offers greater targeted insights into its technical, social, and economic operations. * Alka Raman, Victoriaand Albert Museum, Technology and Culture, Volume 63, Number 1 *Weaving History is an exceptional scholarly work that not only engages lively with these debates but indeed also offers answers and insightful analysis. To begin with the book combines different traditions to produce an excellent outcome. It bridges economic, social, cultural, and labor history while it rarely compromises on any of these fronts. The length and breadth of the sources employed in the book is similarly truly impressive ... Weaving History is thus an outstanding contribution to existing debates and would hopefully bring new life to some of the classical questions concerning the economic/social nexus. * Nikolay Kamenov, H-Soz-Kult *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1: The Geography of Weaving: South India in the Early Nineteenth Century 2: Statistics, Looms and People: The Changing Contours of the Handloom Industry 3: From Cotton to Cloth: The Linking Threads 4: Weaving: Changing Structures 5: Caste and Work 6: Solidarity and Action 7: The State and the Weaver Conclusion Appendix: Note on the Loom Tax Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Rise of the Public Authority
Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. This title recounts the history of these inscrutable government corporations.Trade Review"Gail Radford has performed a great service here, deftly situating the first comprehensive history of this sprawling but underappreciated aspect of American governance within broader narratives of modern US history. And as she explores the histories of agencies like the Federal Land Bank and the Buffalo Sewer Authority, her prose absolutely crackles - this is a real page-turner!" (Derek Hoff, Kansas State University)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"To take a trip around the mind of Robert Fogel, one of the grand old men of American economic history, is a rare treat. At every turning, you come upon some shiny pearl of information." - The Economist "Ideologically refreshing...Fogel's book is remarkable for weaving insights from history, religion, biology, nutrition, demography, economics and even a field called 'technophysio evolution' into an integrated perspective that suggests how the priorities of today's left and right might meld into a powerful new egalitarian agenda to complete the nation's unfinished business." - Matthew Miller, New York Times Book Review "A bold and fascinating argument....Fogel uses the idea of egalitarianism, which he calls our 'national creed,' to see cultural and social transformation through a political lens. If that sounds complicated - and it is - don't worry. Mr. Fogel is equal to his task." - Susan Lee, Wall Street Journal
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The University of Chicago Press Objectifying China Imagining America
Book SynopsisWith the expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. Focusing on the trade and consumption of porcelain, tea, and chinoiserie, this title shows that colonial Americans saw themselves as part of a world much larger than just Britain and Europe.Trade Review"Caroline Frank's arguments span continents and oceans as they offer a richly diverse history that is rightly global in scope, packed with illuminating details that fit together like a disciplinary puzzle-in-the-making." (Robert St. George, University of Pennsylvania)"
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The University of Chicago Press Literature Incorporated The Cultural Unconscious
Book SynopsisLong before Citizens United and modern debates over corporations as people, such organizations already stood between the public and private as both vehicles for commerce and imaginative constructs based on groups of individuals. In this book, John O'Brien explores how this relationship played out in economics and literature, two fields that gained prominence in the same era. Examining British and American essays, poems, novels, and stories from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, O'Brien pursues the idea of incorporation as a trope discernible in a wide range of texts. Key authors include John Locke, Eliza Haywood, Harriet Martineau, and Edgar Allan Poe, and each chapter is oriented around a type of corporation reflected in their works, such as insurance companies or banks. In exploring issues such as whether sentimental interest is the same as economic interest, these works bear witness to capitalism's effect on history and human labor, desire, and memory. This period's
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The University of Chicago Press Corruption and Reform Lessons from Americas
Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of corrupt developing nations as municipal governments and robber barons alike found ways to steal from taxpayers and swindle investors. This book explores this shadowy period of United States history in search of better methods to fight corruption world-wide.
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The University of Chicago Press The Response to Industrialism 1885 1914
Book SynopsisIn this new edition, Samuel P. Hays expands the scope of his pioneering account of the ways in which Americans reacted to industrialism during its early years from 1885 to 1914. Hays now deepens his coverage of cultural transformations in a study well known for its concise treatment of political and economic movements. Hays draws on the vast knowledge of America's urban and social history that has been developed over the last thirty-eight years to make the second edition an unusually well-rounded study. He enhances the original coverage of politics, labor, and business with new accounts of the growth of cities, the rise of modern values, cultural conflicts with Native Americans and foreign nations, and changing roles for women, African-Americans, education, religion, medicine, law, and leisure. The result is a tightly woven portrait of America in transition that underscores the effects of impersonal market forces and greater personal freedom on individuals and chronicles such changes a
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The University of Chicago Press Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange A
Book SynopsisUncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian gentleman-swindlers as they shuffled between the corridors of the London Stock Exchange and the meeting rooms of learned society, showing that anthropological studies were integral to investment and speculation in foreign government debt, and, inversely, that finance played a crucial role in shaping the contours of human knowledge. Flandreau argues that finance and science were at the heart of a new brand of imperialism born during Benjamin Disraeli's first term as Britain's prime minister in the 1860s. As anthropologists advocated the study of Miskito Indians or stated their views on a Jamaican rebellion, they were in fact catering to the impulses of the stock exchangefor their own
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The University of Chicago Press Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange A Financial
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The University of Chicago Press On Economics and Society Selected Essays Phoenix
Book SynopsisThese essays, which make the science of economics intelligible to a general audience, are grouped into six areas: the relevance of economics; the Keynesian revolution; economics and the university; economics and contemporary problems; world inflation, money, trade, growth, and investment; and economics and the environment.
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The University of Chicago Press Capitalism Takes Command
Book SynopsisPresents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management - an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America's revolutionary tradition. This title includes a collection of essays.
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The University of Chicago Press Learning by Doing in Markets Firms and Countries
Book SynopsisDrawing out the underlying economics in business history, this text focuses on learning processes and the development of competitively valuable asymmetries. It shows that organizations learn that this process can be organized effectively, which can have major implications for how competition works.
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